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LeBlanc meets U.S. trade czar in Washington as Ottawa looks ahead to CUSMA review

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc sat down with President Donald Trump's trade czar in Washington on Friday as Ottawa continued preparations for a review of the critical continental trade pact. LeBlanc's office said the meeting with United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer included discussions of the upcoming mandatory review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade, known as CUSMA, as well...

Peter Mansbridge, Chantal Hébert, Bruce Anderson

Good Talk -- Canada, Carney and The Iran War

Within hours of the US and Israeli attack on Iran and the assassination of that country's leader, Mark Carney was out with his initial thoughts on the conflict. Since then there's been some clarification on what he meant but there's also been some concern in Liberal circles. Chantal and Bruce have their thoughts on this and a lot more on...

Raffy Boudjikanian, Olivia Stefanovich

Liberal MPs to hold call Friday as caucus raises concerns about Carney's shifting Iran position

MPs have reservations about PM's initial statement supporting U.S.-Israel strikes. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to brief Liberal MPs on Friday morning about the government's position on the war that has now engulfed Iran and surrounding countries in the Middle East, after some both privately and publicly raised concerns about Prime Minister Mark Carney's initial statement regarding the...

Jack Farrell

Ottawa, Alberta reach prospective agreement to streamline major project assessments

Ottawa and Alberta have reached a prospective deal that they say will see major projects be approved more efficiently. In a joint announcement Friday the two governments said the deal will bring a "one project, one review" approach to addressing the broader impacts of these projects, including on the environment. A draft version of the deal says projects that fall...

Dylan Robertson

Anand: U.S., Israel have 'no blank cheque' in Iran and are bound by international law

The United States and Israel do not have a "blank cheque" in their bombing campaign in Iran, and are still bound by international law, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said on Friday, as the war in the Middle East approaches the seven-day mark.

Polls

David Valentin

Ontario: Liberal Leadership Race is Mostly Unknowns

A new Liaison Strategies survey reveals that while the Progressive Conservatives maintain a narrow lead in voter intent, opposition leaders and potential Liberal leadership candidates are battling significant name-recognition challenges across the province. "The ballot remains competitive, but the favourability numbers suggest that many voters are still getting to know the alternatives to the current government," said David Valentin, principal...

Federal Politics: Liberals Reach 49% Support, Open 14-Point Lead Over Conservatives

Less than a year after the 2025 federal election, the minority Liberal government led by Mark Carney continues to strengthen its position in public opinion. As the Prime Minister Carney advances diplomatic initiatives on the international stage and works to stabilize the economic climate at home, the latest Léger data shows a continued rise in both satisfaction and approval ratings...

Opinion

Andrew Coyne

Pierre Poilievre plants the seeds of an alternative to the Carney doctrine

Irwin Cotler, Brandon Silver

Canada must support international accountability for Iran

News

Zi-Ann Lum

The awkward truth dogging USMCA talks: 'They just hate Canada.'

One year into the trade war, Canadians are feeling more patriotic and more convinced the United States is a worse place under Donald Trump. And as the president dangles the fate of North American free trade above a wood chipper, a split has emerged between business leaders worried about bottom lines and Canadians who are simply over the president’s provocations...

David Baxter

Chartered flights and buses helping to get Canadians out of the Middle East: Anand

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Friday a chartered flight is set to take 180 Canadians fleeing the Middle East war zone from Dubai to Istanbul on Saturday. Anand said the flight will operate on a cost-recovery basis. The government has also block-booked about 50 seats each on a few Air Arabia flights for Canadians travelling from Dubai to Istanbul.

Politician's Pen

Stephen Lecce

Ontario — the world’s reliable partner

This week, the world will converge in Toronto for the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention, the largest mining conference in the world. At a moment defined by geopolitical instability, fractured supply chains, and surging demand for critical minerals, Ontario is emerging as the world’s reliable partner.

Adam van Koeverden

The only thing harder than winning an Olympic Gold Medal is defending one

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Dale Beugin, Ross Linden-Fraser

New analysis: industrial carbon pricing will cost just a Timbit per barrel for Canada’s oil sands sector

Robyn Urback

Why is Canada elbows-up to Trump, but arms-out for Xi and Modi?

Justin Ling

Trump’s war in Iran shows Carney has lots to learn about the new world order — one thing most of all

More than two decades ago, the United States invited Canada to join in a new Middle Eastern misadventure. The invitation was premised on a big lie about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien declined to participate. It’s not that he foresaw the disaster to come — but he had a team of good advisers, as...

Andrew Phillips

Carney has my sympathy as he tries to navigate a war led by Trump and Hegseth

I’ve covered a few wars, in the Balkans and the Middle East, and I’ve seen plenty of military officers (including senior Americans) explain how things are unfolding on the battlefield. In my experience they’re invariably professional, cool and calm. What they’re not is what the U.S. “secretary of war,” Pete Hegseth, displayed this week in a couple of briefings on...

Brian Lilley

Polls show why Conservatives don't want an election right now - Liberals leading in most parts of the country and in every demographic group

Liberals leading in most parts of the country and in every demographic group. When you hear that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives don’t want an election anytime soon, it might be due to the polling.

Campbell Clark

Mark Carney ties his own foreign policy in knots

Let’s peek in on Mark Carney’s Iran war foreign-policy update, beamed to us all the way from Australia. Mr. Carney supported U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran in a statement issued Saturday, and he still does, now in a different way, because the U.S and Israel probably did not act in keeping with international law, which is unfortunately part of...

Lawrence Martin

After shackling Canada to Trump’s war in Iran, Carney’s course correction is wise

Few decisions are more important for a Canadian prime minister than whether to support the United States on matters of war and peace. With such decisions, legacies can be made and unmade. Jean Chrétien offers a prime example. He’s been dining out on his refusal to join George W. Bush’s coalition of the willing in the Iraq war for decades...

Susan Delacourt

Mark Carney reveals why a personal touch is needed when dealing with the world’s most powerful leaders

No one will accuse Mark Carney of being a populist politician. But as he nears the one-year mark as prime minister, we’ve been getting some insights into how Carney is juggling the personal relations he has to manage on the world stage and also at home. It isn’t often that politicians go into that kind of detail, so Carney’s lessons...

Matt Gurney

Canada’s small military is a big problem for Carney. It’s also doing him a big favour right now

In almost any context, one of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s major problems — and it’s one that he inherited, in fairness to him — is the state of the Canadian Armed Forces. Our military is too small to do all the jobs we need it to do. It lacks critical capabilities necessary for survival on the modern battlefield. Manpower shortages...

Max Fawcett

Pierre Poilievre’s great reset

After a humiliating election defeat, multiple defections from his caucus and a widening lead in the polls for Mark Carney’s Liberals, Pierre Poilievre has finally decided to make some changes. He debuted the new look at a recent speech at the Economic Club of Canada, one in which he cited the writings of Marcus Aurelius, name-checked Pierre Trudeau in a...

Lisa Van Dusen

Game Theory vs. ‘Death and Destruction’: Mark Carney’s Trumpian Dilemma

One of the many things that could be said of the rules-based world order is that it was designed so that countries — including middle powers — would not have to rely on their wits, in the manner of a Hobbesian geopolitical Hunger Games, to survive in the face of hegemonic aggression. “The world will always be driven by great...

Merran Smith, Dan Woynillowicz, Moe Kabbara

The path to energy security now runs through electrification

Bob Rae

Trump’s Consequential War

I begin writing today with a quotation from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. In a press conference Monday morning, Hegseth celebrated Israel and its strikes alongside the U.S., while he condemned “so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force.” In explaining the Trump doctrine of military...

Andrew Caddell

B.C.’s Eby may not be long for the job

The premier won’t have time to turn the economy around as the prospect of an election this year looms large. Spare a moment, if you will, for British Columbia Premier David Eby. Not long ago, the former Vancouver lawyer seemed to have it in the bag. He inherited the premiership and a budget surplus of $5.7-billion from the popular John...

Andrew MacDougall

There are lessons for Poilievre and Carney in U.K. byelection

Pierre Poilievre, leader of His Majesty’s loyal opposition, is visiting the King’s home turf this week, where he gave a keynote speech at Margaret Thatcher’s think tank of choice. The visit comes at a good time for Poilievre to open his ears as well as his mouth. For the United Kingdom is deep into a period of political turmoil, one...

Supriya Dwivedi

OpenAI's deal with Trump is putting Canadians at risk too

In a stunning showdown last week between the Trump administration and frontier AI company Anthropic, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth demanded that Anthropic allow its AI models to be used for “any lawful purpose,” without any restrictions. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused and laid out the company’s two red lines for its models’ usage by the US government: barring...

Andrew Coyne

Why even Iraq war hawks should oppose this war

When president George H.W. Bush went to war against Iraq in 1991, he sought and won the consent of the Congress of the United States. Resolutions authorizing military force passed the House, by a margin of 250 to 183, and the Senate, 52-47. Mr. Bush had earlier secured the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 678. The cause was...

John Ivison

Hope for the pipeline deal to survive a clash over carbon taxes

Back at the end of November when Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith signed their memorandum of understanding (MOU), it was presented as the best of all possible worlds: Canada would get a new oil pipeline and reduced carbon emissions.

Lloyd Axworthy

Canadians deserve to know if our military is helping the U.S. attack on Iran

Canadian Forces exchange officers working with the U.S. military were “very likely” involved at some level in planning the weekend strikes on Iran, a former Canada major-general has warned. If true, this should raise alarm bells for Canadians because it means Ottawa’s insistence that Canada is “not involved” in this operation is not just implausible, it’s misleading.

Tasha Kheiriddin

Tasha Kheiriddin: In India, Carney might be being pragmatic, but principled?

RIP Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, we hardly knew you. As Prime Minister Mark Carney alights in Australia this week, fresh from a trade mission to India, the basic premise of the strategy — “to seize opportunities in the national interest of Canadians, while defending the values they hold dear” — has been junked in favour of realpolitik: doing business with countries...

Fen Osler Hampson

Carney’s Iran Trap: How Trump’s War Could Become Canada’s Problem

Mark Carney may have thought he dodged a bullet when he wordsmithed Canada’s position on the latest U.S.‑Israeli assault on Iran, Operation Epic Fury. “Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security,” Carney said in a written statement released jointly with Foreign...

Campbell Clark

No time for truth in this reset with India

Mark Carney left on a trip to India last Thursday but there has simply been no time to field reporters’ queries. The Prime Minister cancelled the press conference scheduled for Monday, when embarrassing questions were to be posed, because his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ran long and his flight to Australia couldn’t be delayed and well, there...

Andrew Phillips

Why Carney ‘s messaging on India and Iran should be reversed

In politics it’s usually best to be as clear as you can. But there are times when clarity will get you in trouble for no particularly good reason. That’s when it’s smarter to fuzz things up a bit. On India and Iran, Mark Carney has been both clear and fuzzy over the past few days. The problem is he’s been...

Aaron Wherry

Did Carney go too far in offering 'support' for U.S. strikes against Iran?

Every prime minister is called upon, at one point or another, to comment on the actions of an American president. For Mark Carney, still less than a year on the job, there have already been several such moments. The latest moment of necessity arrived this past weekend, when the United States and Israel launched new attacks on Iran. The response...

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Gulf allies complain US didn't notify them of Iran attacks and ignored their warnings, sources say

The Trump administration is confronting mounting discontent from allies in the Persian Gulf who have complained they were not given adequate time to prepare for the torrent of Iranian drones and missiles bombarding their countries in retaliation for strikes launched by the U.S. and Israel. Officials from two Gulf countries said their governments were disappointed in the way the U.S...

Nicholas Keung, Ghada Alsharif

Canada launches new program to grant 33,000 foreign workers permanent residence, immigration minister reveals

Ottawa has soft-launched a promised program to transition current work permit holders to permanent residence, as soaring numbers of migrants are running out of status in Canada, says Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab.

Craig Lord, Catherine Morrison

Ottawa office market experts left in the dark over feds' return-to-work needs

Ottawa real estate watchers are calling on the federal government to be more clear about its workspace needs as public servants prepare to spend more time in the office. Landlords and office brokers want to know whether the federal government is going to need more space to accommodate ramped-up return-to-office plans after years of stated plans to consolidate its office...

John Paul Tasker

In Tokyo, Carney signs agreement with Japanese counterpart to expand trade and defence ties

PM meets with his Japanese counterpart, automakers while in Tokyo for a day Prime Minister Mark Carney inked a series of agreements with his Japanese counterpart Friday designed to expand and “modernize” the bilateral relationship as he continues his push to develop deeper ties to like-minded countries in the Indo-Pacific — now that the Canada-U.S. relationship is on shaky ground...

Dylan Robertson

Canada's defence chief says allies may help Gulf states bombed by Iran

Canada's defence chief Gen. Jennie Carignan said allies are in talks about possibly helping Persian Gulf states defend themselves against bombing from Iran. Speaking to reporters at a defence and security conference in Ottawa Thursday, Carignan said a meeting is set for early Friday morning to discuss such a proposal among allied militaries and the Canadian Armed Forces would present...

Janyce McGregor

Canada signing agreement with EU to enhance free trade deal

Negotiations to add digital trade provisions begin Thursday. As relations with the Trump administration remain fraught and uncertain, trade ministers from Canada and the European Union are set to sign on to a series of improvements to their bilateral trade agreement. Maroš Šefčovič, the European Union commissioner for trade and economic security, will join International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu in...

Dylan Robertson

Carney to cap Indo-Pacific trip with Tokyo visit focused on trade, security

Prime Minister Mark Carney is headed to Japan for a brief visit to one of Canada's closest partner countries as he wraps up a trip across the Indo-Pacific. "The trip is long overdue, given how significant Japan is as a partner for us in the region," Asia Pacific Foundation vice-president Vina Nadjibulla said in a recent interview. Japan is the...

Irem Koca

Navy commander, SecState kibosh mixed submarine fleet that experts say would be ‘more complicated’ and ‘inefficient’ to operate

The commander of Canada’s Navy says a mixed submarine fleet would be “more complicated” to operate despite reports that the government is considering splitting the multibillion-dollar contract for 12 new vessels.

LeBlanc to meet Trump's trade czar in Washington on Friday

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is set to meet President Donald Trump's trade czar in Washington on Friday, a day after the United States announced it was launching bilateral discussions with Mexico on the review of the continental trade pact. LeBlanc's office said he will be meeting with United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to discuss the upcoming mandatory review...

Dylan Robertson

Conservatives urge vote on any military role in Iran, accuse Carney of flip-flopping

The Conservatives are calling for a parliamentary debate before any sort of Canadian military deployment in the ongoing war in Iran, after Prime Minister Mark Carney said such a deployment is possible. Conservative defence critic James Bezan says Parliament should have the final say on whether Canada deploys troops in a conflict and accuses Carney of being "all over the...

Adriana Fallico

‘Buy Canadian’ policy likely to cost taxpayers $12 billion yearly: study

A study released by the Montreal Economic Institute estimates the federal government’s “Buy Canadian” policy could increase the cost of large infrastructure projects by more than $12 billion per year. The study states that, among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, total expenditures on public procurement accounted for 12.9 per cent of gross domestic product in 2021.

Sarah Ritchie

Secretary of state says Canada not looking to split submarine contract

Canada's secretary of state for defence procurement says the government is planning to choose just one company to build the country's next fleet of submarines. Stephen Fuhr says the Canadian position has not changed, despite media reports this week suggesting the government might split the contract. Two companies are in the final stages of a heated competition for a multi-billion...

Nojoud Al Mallees, Mario Baker Ramirez, Erik Hertzberg

Eight Charts Show ‘Rupture’ With Canada Under Trump’s Tariffs

Rajan Arora is no stranger to trade turmoil between Canada and the US. Just two days after taking over a small steel-producing firm in southern Ontario in 2018, President Donald Trump slapped 25% tariffs on the metal. Business slowed at Roden Manufacturing, creating cash flow problems for the company.

Christopher Nardi

Poilievre promises binding LNG supply deals with Europe and to 'override' governments blocking energy projects

Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre promised a Conservative government would sign binding supply agreements with European allies such as Germany to supply them with natural gas while “overriding bureaucracies and other levels of government” to speed up building pipelines and LNG terminals. Poilievre delivered a speech Wednesday in Berlin that alternated between an emphatic promotion of Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG)...

Jordan Gowling,

Liberals reach 49% voter support and the party's biggest lead in 10 years: Leger poll

Nearly half of Canadians say they would vote Liberal if an election were called today, giving Prime Minister Mark Carney’s party its largest lead since 2016. Forty-nine per cent of decided voters would vote for the Liberals, while 35 per cent would vote Conservative, according to the Postmedia-Leger poll that was taken between Feb. 27 to March 2. That’s a...

Evan Dyer

Airlines weigh risks in Mideast skies filled with 'hot pieces of flying metal'

Confusing advice and on-again-off-again airport closures are complicating the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of foreigners stranded in the conflict zone around the Persian Gulf. A wide area of the Middle East is now considered too dangerous to fly, forcing some Asian-bound flights to burn more fuel diverting around the danger zone. Flight radar shows an oval-shaped area about 2,50...

Anja Karadeglija

Carney says Canadian military participation in Middle East war can't be ruled out

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada can not yet rule out military participation in the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Speaking to reporters at a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra, Carney said the question around Canada's potential future involvement is a "fundamental hypothetical," adding the conflict can spread very broadly. "One can never...

John Paul Tasker

Carney tells Australian Parliament allies must draw closer as global order is 'breaking down'

In speech to a joint session of Australia's Parliament, Carney says the Commonwealth realms must band together. In an address to Australia's Parliament that was something of a love letter to the country and its people, Prime Minister Mark Carney implored citizens in both Commonwealth realms to draw closer together amid a breakdown in the established global order. Carney said...

Emmanuel Prince-Thauvette

Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn - Referendum on Alberta's independence from Canada could take place in October

Alberta is not ready to deal with the threat of online disinformation coming from foreign actors in a possible referendum campaign on separation this fall, according to national security experts. “Alberta is excessively vulnerable to American interference,” Jean-Christophe Boucher, a professor of political science at the University of Calgary, told Radio-Canada. Boucher, whose research focuses on foreign interference, is unequivocal...

Sean Boynton

Canadians want floor-crossing MPs to face ‘immediate’ byelections: poll

A majority of Canadians say members of Parliament should not be allowed to cross the floor to another party and should face an “immediate” byelection if they do so, a new poll suggests. However, Wednesday’s Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found Canadians’ displeasure with floor-crossing MPs has not hurt the overall approval for Prime Minister Mark Carney or...

Catherine Lévesque, Stephanie Taylor

Why Mark Carney got chippy with a reporter over what an 'unnamed government official' said

Prime Minister Mark Carney got a little bit chippy when asked by a National Post reporter if he agreed with an unnamed government official who downplayed India’s role in transnational repression and foreign interference in a briefing last week.

Anja Karadeglija

'We can set the agenda': Carney continues middle power pitch in Australia

Prime Minister Mark Carney took his middle-powers speech from the World Economic Forum earlier this year to an audience in Australia on Wednesday, where he also discussed the difficulties of negotiating with U.S. President Donald Trump. Hitting many of the same points he did in his headline-making speech in Davos, Switzerland in January, Carney told the Lowy Institute think tank...

Dylan Robertson

Carney's shift on Iran might not stop pressure for Canadian entanglement

As Prime Minister Mark Carney shifts away from unequivocal support for American airstrikes on Iran, one expert says Canada could still be drawn into the conflict. Carney on Tuesday expressed "regret" over the state of the global order and said he would have preferred to see the U.S. seek debate at the United Nations and consult with allies before launching...

Emma Loop

Moroun, Ambassador Bridge company turned to ex-Harper aides’ firm to lobby Canadian officials

Bridge owner has faced criticism for U.S. lobbying efforts. The billionaire U.S. owners of the busiest land border crossing in North America turned to a high-powered lobbying firm run by former top aides to Prime Minister Stephen Harper in recent years, records show. The Moroun family, which has controlled the Ambassador Bridge connecting Ontario and Michigan for decades, has aggressively...

Sarah Ritchie

Foreign Affairs Minister Anand says NATO must turn its focus to the North

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says NATO needs to focus on the North as the global security environment changes and new threats emerge. Anand spoke at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute's annual gathering in Ottawa today. She said the government's "singular task" is to defend Canada's sovereignty and strengthen its alliances.

Bill Curry

BlackRock exec Glenn Purves named deputy minister of international trade in latest shuffle

Glenn Purves, a BlackRock executive, has been brought back to the public service to become deputy minister of international trade as part of the Carney government’s latest shuffle of the federal bureaucracy’s senior ranks. The announcement names 16 individuals who will be taking on new roles. Many of the changes involve current deputy ministers moving to new departments. Mr. Purves...

Canada secures limited seats on commercial flights from Lebanon as conflict widens

The federal government has secured "a limited number of seats" on commercial flights out of Lebanon for Canadians trying to flee the region, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Wednesday. Anand said 103,000 people have registered with Global Affairs Canada in the Middle East and Gulf region. The Canadian government is not offering assisted departures from the region.

John Paul Tasker

'It's not easy, let's be clear': Carney speaks frankly about dealing with Trump at an event in Australia

Carney said Trump is open to hearing ideas and solicits opinions from those he speaks with. Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled back the curtain on his relationship with his American counterpart Wednesday evening in Australia saying it's not easy dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump and he must choose his words carefully to avoid any blowback. Speaking at a think...

Abigail Bimman

Prime Minister Carney drops f-word and dishes on dealing with world leaders at Sydney stop

In a more relaxed mode than usual, Prime Minister Mark Carney used the f-word at a fireside chat in Sydney while telling a story from his time as a central banker and shared his observations about a number of world leaders. “You don’t want to say anything in public that you can’t back up,” he said about learning how to...

Stephanie Ha

B.C. premier says ‘no information’ India involved in extortion in his province

As questions surrounding India’s involvement in foreign interference and transnational repression persist, B.C. Premier David Eby says he has received “no information” that agents of the Indian government have been involved in extortion in his province. “I want to be clear: At this point, we do not have any information,” Eby said in an interview with CTV Power Play on...

US Poli

Alexa St. John And Jeff Amy, The Associated Press

SK lays off nearly 1,000 workers at Georgia plant amid cooling automaker EV plans

ATLANTA (AP) -- Battery company SK Battery America Inc. laid off nearly 1,000 workers at a manufacturing plant northeast of Atlanta on Friday amid automakers' changing electrification plans and uncertain consumer demand for EVs.

Jon Gambrell, David Rising, Sam Metz And Sally Abou Aljoud, The Associated Press

Trump rules out talks absent Iran's 'unconditional surrender' as Israel strikes Lebanon

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Israeli warplanes pounded Beirut and Tehran on Friday as Iran launched another wave of retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf countries. There was no sign of the war letting up on its seventh day, as U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to rule out negotiations with Iran and called for its "unconditional surrender."

Jon Gambrell, David Rising, Sam Metz And Sally Abou Aljoud, The Associated Press

Israeli warplanes pound Tehran and Beirut as the US vows a surge in its strikes on Iran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Israeli warplanes pounded Beirut and Tehran on Friday as Iran launched another wave of retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf countries. There was no sign of the war letting up on its seventh day, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned the U.S. air campaign against Iran would "surge dramatically."

Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves And Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press

House narrowly rejects Iran war powers resolution in early test of Trump's strategy

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House narrowly rejected a war powers resolution Thursday to halt President Donald Trump's attacks on Iran, an early sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly widening conflict that is reordering U.S. priorities at home and abroad.

International

Dylan Robertson

Anand: U.S., Israel have 'no blank cheque' in Iran and are bound by international law

Gulf allies complain US didn't notify them of Iran attacks and ignored their warnings, sources say

Dylan Robertson

Carney to cap Indo-Pacific trip with Tokyo visit focused on trade, security

John Paul Tasker

Carney tells Australian Parliament allies must draw closer as global order is 'breaking down'

Anja Karadeglija

'We can set the agenda': Carney continues middle power pitch in Australia

Think Tank

Dave Snow

Rising Crime Eroding Trust

Canada’s criminal justice system is failing its most basic test: keeping the public safe. A new report from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute reveals rising crime, falling clearance rates, and a bail system widely seen as broken. The result is a struggling justice system increasingly derailed by delays and struggling to deliver safety or accountability – eroding the trust of the Canadians...

Shaimaa Yassin, Abigail Jackson, Dena Abtahi, Ricardo Chejfec

Supporting communities through layoffs and business closures: A comprehensive framework

Canada’s economic landscape is profoundly changing. A shifting trade environment, global efforts to reduce emissions and other structural trends are reshaping industries and job requirements. With these shifts, opportunities arise, but so do uneven risks and impacts. Certain communities are disproportionately susceptible to the workforce disruption these changes will bring. In this Policy Brief, we focus on mass layoffs and...

Vina Nadjibulla

Carney’s India Visit: From Reset to Results

A year ago, it was not obvious that Canada–India relations could be pulled back from the brink. Diplomatic expulsions, public recriminations, and allegations of foreign interference had frozen one of Canada’s most consequential Indo-Pacific partnerships. Yet since Prime Minister Mark Carney and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met on the margins of the G7 summit in Kananaskis last June, a different...

Substacks

A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Dean Beeby

Liberal government's addiction to secrecy

On Thursday, the Liberal government finally got around to asking ordinary Canadians how to fix the country’s premier transparency law, the Access to Information Act. The Act, dating from 1983, empowers citizens to hold governments to account through requests for internal information.

Tasha Kheiriddin

The Age of Democracy is Over

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was a monster. For close to thirty years, he presided over a police state that violated human rights at home and exported terror to the world. Now he is dead, crushed by the American assault on Iran that flattened his compound and sparked a regional war. From Tehran to Toronto, thousands of Iranians are celebrating...

Steven Staples

The fatal flaw in Carney’s “defence industrial” gamble

Prime Minister Mark Carney has finally revealed his plan to turn Canada into a weapons-exporting global mega-power. “In total, the Defence Industrial Strategy is an investment of over half a trillion dollars in Canadian security, economic prosperity, and our sovereignty,” he announced this week, promising to create over 125 thousand “high-paying careers” building weapons and otherwise supplying the Canadian military...

Podcasts

‘Pace yourself for the long haul’: Jocelyne Bourgon joins The Hot Room

Peter Mazereeuw speaks with Jocelyne Bourgon, a former clerk of the Privy Council who served as Jean Chrétien's right hand. They discuss Canada's move away from the United States, national unity, public service cuts, and Bourgon's new book, A Public Servant's Voice: Through the Words of the First Woman Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada.

Good Talk -- Canada, Carney and The Iran War

We hate it when Carney sounds like Trudeau

On federal comms in disarray. On Poilievre 3.0. And U.SA. vs. Globe and Mail In the latest episode of The Line Podcast, recorded on March 6th, 2026, your hosts agree at the outset to avoid talking about Alberta for once, because Jen really needs a break. Fortunately, there was plenty else happening this week.

How Carney is navigating the Iran war response

At Issue this week: Prime Minister Mark Carney rides the line between keeping Canada back from the Iran war and supporting the U.S. mission, but won't 'categorially' rule out involvement. Pierre Poilievre tours Europe. And, what's behind the Liberals' growing lead in polls?